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A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.

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Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

Tayari Jones, Ann Patchett, George Saunders and Veronica Roth return with new novels; Jennette McCurdy makes her fiction ...

Billed as "a masterpiece of architectural beauty and pyramid-like strength," the red flying horse was first installed in 1934 ...

The Moon exerts a constant physical influence on Earth through gravity, light, and orbital interaction. Its mass shapes ocean ...

A dense Arctic bonebed shows marine life and ocean food webs recovered far faster than scientists once believed after mass ...

As she prepares to release her third studio album Locket on 16 January, we chat to US popstar Madison Beer about finding ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA. A study suggests that this organism likely lived on Earth only 400 ...